Richard Stearman: 'Wolverhampton Wanderers promotion push back on'

Richard Stearman has said that his Wolverhampton Wanderers teammates have set their sights on promotion to the Premier League after a string of good results put them within touching distance of the Championship playoff places.

The Midlands side's strong start to the campaign was undone by a disastrous run of five straight defeats in November, but 10 points from the last available 12 - including wins over high-flying Watford and Brentford - leave Wolves just three points off the top six.

"We have come off the back of a good few wins now and all a sudden we are looking up the league, thinking of the playoffs," defender Stearman told the Express & Star. "Six points in three days over the Christmas period makes it nicer.

"It has put us right back in the mix. We have had a good four games now and all of a sudden November is behind us and we are looking up. It sums the Championship up. You put a string of results together and you fly back up the league. We are getting back to where we feel we should be."

Next up for Kenny Jackett's men is a trip to fellow Championship side Fulham in the FA Cup on January 3, followed by a visit to ninth-placed Blackburn Rovers when league action resumes a week later.